because i think two years ago three years ago the european commission would simply you know push their idea through you know because they're not in league and the committed a mortal sin they called for and then two and a rush of sanctions in their so-called government contract but now when the head of the european commission called your joint car or you would carry in french when he is saying i'm caught in this i do think we have to reconnect with russia not forget and what our differences are but the russian bashing class to be brought to an end and of course when such things you hear from the head of the european commission something has to change inside or even union to look at the i think may be again cautiously optimistic is that there may be the where newest it's not the rise of the populous left it's not the rise of the populist left right but it's really the failure of the center of the centrist parties in are they going to get on board and understand that people are going to vote for alternatives so i don't think you understand the danger that this populist democracy presentin

because i think two years ago three years ago the european commission would simply you know push their idea through you know because they're not on leave and the price that can be to. and want to see and they called for and then to enter russia sanctions in their so-called government contract but now when the head of the european commission. or you will carry in french when he is saying i'm caught in this i do think we have to reconnect with russia not forget and what our differences are but the russian bashing has to be brought to an end and of course when such things you hear from the head of the european commission something has to change inside the green union to look at i think may.

because i think two years ago three years ago the european commission would simply you know push their idea through you know because they're not in league and they're the price that committed a mortal sin they called for and then to enter russia saying actions in their so called government quo. but know when the head of the european commission is uncle of your own car or you would carry a french when he is saying and i'm caught in this i do think we have to reconnect with russia not to forget and what our differences are but the russia bashan has to be brought to an end and the cold when such things you hear from the head of the european commission something has to change inside the european union to look at the i think may be. cautiously optimistic is that there may be the awareness that it's not the rise of the populous left it's not the rise of the populist left in the right but it's really the failure of the center of the centrist parties in are they going to get on board and understand that people are going to vote for alternatives so i don't think you understand the danger that t

then mainstream media who calls anyone who disagrees with the european commission populists far right dangerous marginalized politicians the five star you know a lot of the league they have one together you know if we. send it over the wall they will they want more than fifty percent of the vote all of the people who actually came to the pools they had the full right to suggest their prime minister when the president said your month that i would try to separate that that was a scandal but obviously there are some changes taking place in the u. because i think two years ago three years ago the european commission would simply you know push their idea through you know because they're not in league and the price that committed a mortal sin they called for and then to enter a rush of sanctions in their so-called government contract but now when the head of the european commission called your joint car or you would carry in french when he is saying i'm caught in this i do think we have to reconnect with russia not forget and what our differences are but the russian bashing class to be brou

thinks you hear from the head of the european commission something has to change inside the european union to look at the i think maybe again cautiously optimistic is that there may be the awareness that it's not the rise of the populace left it's not the rise of the populist left right but it's really the failure of the center of these centrist parties in are they going to get on board and understand that people are going to vote for alternatives so i don't think you understand the danger that this populist democracy presenting to the european union fight and so you're lecturing us on no more. because thankfully the talian figurehead president rightly recognized that the euro is greater than democracy acted to defend it by preventing this from this joint far right far left governments finance minister who was very critical of the euro from being appointed the e.u. his budget chief i think said it best to go and thorough injure and he says it is unacceptable and acceptable for our talian still vote for populists the markets will teach them how to vote ok alexander react to that becau

officials are not qualified especially at the european commission that's not the problem. the problem concerns the institutional and systemic contradictions within the european union and this needs to focus. has the final word within the structure of the e.u. it's the european council it has the final decision making powers that seem to be going over the heads of governments or the not so nice thoughts of the heads of state governments of the member states see and that's the contradiction common european policy is developed and decided on by the leaders of nation states over to . we've got to get away from that if we want to see a european republican group most of the officials and european commission are highly qualified to speak several languages they study to top universities and they came to brussels out of idealism because they want to work on the european project because they really are very qualified and they come up with sensible policies their comments are going to they're blocked by the heads of state and their national self-interest this bright yes and the europe

yesterday officials and a european commission are highly qualified to speak several languages studied to top universities and they came to brussels out of idealism because they want to work on the european project they really are very qualified and they come up with sensible policies. but they're blocked by they had their state and their national self-interest this bright yes and the european council to say officials draft intelligent policies commission insiders call these draft sacrificial offerings because when they were sent to the council it was torn apart that's what has caused this crisis that's the basic contradiction. and it's also why we fail to find solutions to many of our problems and fail. to create a legal framework we need to be a member state or other is always against this or that out of self-interest. leaving we said the e.u. failing to act is one. britain has voted for brics it. eastern european countries don't want to take in refugees italy wants to take on more and more debt to do with how would you describe the current state of europe. this is where he's coming

angela merkel's mini migration summit in brussels invitations have gone out in the name of the european commission to ten countries including italy greece spain and austria coming maybe more the german chancellor wants as many countries as possible to take back refugees if they've registered their first a preliminary draft of the final declaration points to a clear tightening of the us silent policy including an end to the large scale movement of refugees within the european union the document proposes the establishment of migrant processing centers outside a u. borders also a mechanism for deportations between e.u. countries cash and other welfare provisions would only be available in the countries migrants are registered and there'd be controls at stations in airports to limit cross border movement but the document provoked disagreement as soon as it was leaked italian prime minister to. complain that the paper disregarded his country's position and threatened to boycott this weekend's migration meeting he says italy wants a moratorium on new migrants before it takes any back from other e.u. cou

we want to go in the european commission to get a new agreement, deal it again, the agreement we signedt if we don't act like this, italy and all the other countries that are facing crisis, in 20 years, the eu will never exist. if germany, france, the other big countries, do not understand that we are, that we are under the risk to destroy the european dream, then we will go straight there. are you effectively saying to the europeans, we are keen to stay, we will stay in the euro and the eu but if you get in our way, if you impose unnecessary rules on us, then the game is over for italy and the eu? i don't want to go to the fight... we just started. i trust the eu. we are really focused on making it work. you will understand, there has to be good cooperation. everyone in the has to understand that if italy is in trouble, you need to help italy. because the opposite is to make europe collapse. some are saying that what you have done is bring not the fascists but a very right—wing nationalist party back into government, in italy, of a kind that has not been seen since mussolini. i have re

bashan has to be brought to an end and of course when such things you hear from the head of the european commission something has to change inside the european union to look at the i think may be again cautiously optimistic is that there may be the awareness that it's not the rise of the populous left it's not the rise of the populist left right but it's really the failure of the center of these centrist parties in are they going to get on board and understand that people are going to vote for alternatives so i don't think you understand the danger that this populist democracy presenting to the european union finance that you like your lecturing us on no more. because the thankfully the talian figurehead president rightly recognized that the euro is greater than democracy acted to defend it by preventing this this joint far right far left government finance minister who was very critical of the euro from being appointed. the e.u.'s budget chief i think says it best to go on for over an injury and he says it is unacceptable and acceptable for our talian still vote for populists the markets will teac

ask the european commission president he's urging the block to look east and strengthen ties with moscow amid a hefty terence being imposed by the united states. here in moscow this friday the first of june money and this is your world news for a marty international first for you this hour a meeting between the russian president and the north korean leader is in the pipeline for later this year the kremlin says the possibility of a summit currently being discussed the announcement comes on the back of thursday's meeting between russia's foreign minister and kim jong un so expressed his support for the escalation efforts but added that it should be handled gradually. has been following the delegation for some was granted exclusive access to one of kim jong un's residences. we were told to leave most of our belongings and all our mobile devices behind and now they're taking us somewhere. so we're here in this fandom just to keep our men one photographer and myself following a lot of state in. this area is completely deserted and it looks like we're in circling something that appears to be

european commission president. welcome to the program from national first for you this hour north korean officials have been meeting american diplomats in new york it comes amid uncertainty over a peace summit between the two countries g later this month on thursday russia's foreign minister met with north korea so expressed his support for deescalation efforts but added that it should be handled gradually our correspondent has been following the delegation was granted exclusive access to one of kim jong un's residences. we were told to leave most of our belongings and all our mobile devices behind and now they're taking us somewhere. so we're here in this van and just to keep our men one photographer and myself following a lot of savings. in this area is completely deserted and it looks like we're in circling something that appears to be the palace. if only someone told me where exactly we are right now but we are being told to fall this man. who. i don't really know what exactly this place this but it looks to be

the will get over it in due course in brussels the head of the european commission called it a bad day for world trade promising counter measures that could include retaliatory tariffs u.s. goods into the e.u. on everything from blue jeans to motorcycles what they can do we are able to do exactly. the same it's totally up to the it come to the letter of measures when it comes to its. credit france's jr trade minister promised a similar response suggesting the u.s. president may be misinformed. no more for the comes a point when one needs to look at the figures and i'm surprised that maybe president trump stuff haven't shown him how much those european companies have invested in the united states created jobs that to assemble and produce the now those u.s. jobs could. it risks just as president donald trump seeks to fulfill one of his top campaign promises to protect the jobs of his supporters in america's steel and aluminum manufacturing sectors it's not just international partners criticizing donald trump's decision to oppose steel and aluminum tariffs on top u.s. allies domestically

six immediately after we started the negotiations and some countries france and also the european union commission block several chapters and those days we didn't have any bad relations with the europeans it was excellent so what he's trying to do that it's to say that my deputy prime minister you want when we do the reforms and when we reach the opening and closing benchmarks of the chapters unfortunately due to the political obstacles we haven't made any progress so why don't you respect his opening he's the deputy prime ministers and you question every statement of one turkish politicians but one you would never question the european side or the army standards we have of course we question the european side but you don't represent europe so i'm i don't like that and we were you i know you're very sensitive of turkey i must tell you about on those i am carrying member of the council of europe my friend and i share the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe for two years when you are here as a foreign minister and you are also a member of nato we are member of the o.e.c.d. and we are the

laura: it might be, but i would say the european commission is taking a very rational and proportionatepproach right now. they declared early on that there need to be some countermeasures, but they are proportionate. now, of course, everyone is will be the next step on the u.s. side, but we also have to consider a significant amount of opposition cars andr tariffs on automobile parts within the u.s., and it would be much more hurtful if trump took that action. melinda: i want to talk more about that in a moment, but to jewel deeper on what we heard earlier, it is an argument that has been made by the trump administration that there are great disparities if you look overall at eu customs duties on american imports compared to overall american duties on imports from the eu. i did check the numbers last numbers.e official wto on average, the difference is about 1.7%, not all that large, it would seem. what is your estimate on that? you are a trade expert. it's a typical rhetorical trick on the side of donald trump and his advisers, to just take one piece out of the whole picture and then b

we heard again and again from the european commission that won't work they won't negotiate with a guneir head is the term aheard a lot in brussels. do you think this approach failed >> well, i think he's very happy to create this leverage. we see that lots of his negotiations, we're seeing that in the nafta negotiations, the intention to create leverage that you can trade off for concessions. the problem for the people on the other side of those negotiations is that if you take out that stick any time you want, then that's not something we can negotiate on. we can negotiate on long-term structural changes between our two economies or sector by sector, but we can't negotiate with someone who is going to pull out this kind of protectionist stick every time where people misread the administration, he's willing to create this leverage as a negotiating tactic, he's also comfortable keeping the measures in place he does think there's an economic benefit to keeping the protectionist tariffs in place chief trade policy assistant, peter navarro is in "usa today" with an op-ed that very clearly

credit unlike what happened for germany and stuff so let's however look at the technocrats the european commission this was a tweet from a journalist from deutsche of al who interviewed european commissioner who is a german who is a european commissioner for budget and human resources and so here is the tweet from bernard thomas riegert of deutsche of l. the markets and a darkened outlook will teach italy's voters not to vote for populist parties in the next elections told me the commissioner oettinger in exclusive interview for a dose of health news and strasburg i can only hope that the. will play a role in the election campaign so looks like there will be another election in italy probably in july or august. and this guy oettinger who is good there herman oettinger a german politician and now a european commissioner he's saying that because the markets have reacted so negatively that italian voters should basically learn a lesson and not vote for a populist again right the key phrase there is the markets will teach quote the markets will teach according to the technocrat the german that as we'v

i want to see that from the european commission, and the european union, as well.a year into the negotiations, the eu says the uk still doesn't have a clear negotiating position, and it needs to see one. she headed home, excluded from today's brexit discussion. controversy has of course accompanied every stage of the brexit process, including the way it has been reported on bbc news. for many, the corporation fails to provide balanced coverage, with louise vale putting it like this... but the majority of complaints we received are about a perceived bias in the other direction. here is pat marks.

the justice of the european parliament these are mostly already closed issues between the the european commission and the so. in general brad wrestles have lots of demands when it comes to hungary and there you know actually saying that if hungary doesn't meet those demands whether it's judiciary or frame or pratt or immigration they're actually saying that well may not find you in the next year budget so here's i think it's only that whatever you give the only makes up six percent of your budget first of all is it worth it is is that money worth doing everything they want you to do because i know that mr a bank has said you know we don't have to live off german money anyways well you know hunger is interest is european union to be strong because we. a strong conquering needs a strong european union because we have a very open economy and seventy nine percent of our exports goes to the european union we have an export over g.d.p. ratio around ninety percent so you can imagine how significant for us it is the european union to be stronger and european union to have a competitive economy on the oth

example in terms of judiciary you were kind enough to refer to yes we did have debates we do european commission about legislation in hungary regarding the judiciary system but the fact is that we have a word. close all these issues in three different ways either we understood the commission was right and then changed the deregulation either the commission admitted that these are right and then we left it as it was or we couldn't agree and then we went to the european court and they respected the regulation of the decision of the european court so these are all closed issues so so all these issues which are being put in the report about hungary just very recently in the committee of liberties and justice of the european parliament these are mostly already closed issues between the the european commission and the so. in general brad wrestles have lots of demands when it comes to hungary and there you know actually saying that if hungary doesn't meet those demands whether it's judiciary or frame or pratt or immigration they're actually saying that well may not find you in the next year budget so h

european commission president urges the block to look at. tara. from moscow every hour of the day international my names you know neil welcome to the program our top story a meeting between the russian president and the north korean leader is in the pipeline for later this year the kremlin sais the possibility of a summit is currently being discussed the nice man comes on the block of thursday's meeting between russia's foreign minister kim jong il and search. his support for deescalation efforts on the peninsula but it should be unfolding gradually. franco has been following the delegation for us and was granted exclusive access to one of kim jong un's residences. we were told to leave most of our belongings and all our mobile devices behind and now they're taking us somewhere. so we're here in this van and just to keep our men one photographer and myself following a lot of state in. this area is completely deserted and it looks like we're in circling something that appears to be the powers. that be if only someone told me where exactly we are ri

when we published a white paper, we are able to negotiate with the european commission.

but just this week the news came that the german finance minister is going to meet with the european commission trade representative and damn america to discuss this tariff specifically and what i want to ask you is whether you believe in principle it's a good idea for the europeans to ask for individual concessions rather than trying to push against what you i think quite rightly termed the us legal imperialism in other words should they be asking for a privilege or should they be asking for rules that are commonly applied to everybody no no it's not mix issues the the what you just talked about this terrorist trade and. we. have different terrorists with different countries the issue is is more fundamentally was a respectful national sovereignty or not and it's not turning point if we miss a point and. i'm not capable to show we must be respected then i think it would be a very deadly who for the future of the u.s. but mr bush when you say i agree with you that terrorising individual but at the same time for example the other day c.n.n. wrote an article suggesting that the way china can deal

but just this week the news came that the german finance minister is going to meet with the european commission trade representative and the americans to discuss this tariff specifically and what i want to ask you is whether you believe in principle it's a good idea for the europeans to ask for individual concessions rather than trying to push against what you or i think quite rightly termed the us legal imperialism in other words should they be asking for a privilege or should they be asking for rules that are commonly applied to everybody no no it's not mix issues what you just talked about is terrorist trade and. we are. different there are three different countries the issue is is more fundamentally was a respectful national sovereignty or not and it's the turning point if we miss a point and to see rain in a month capable to show we must be respected then i think it would be a very deadly who for the future of the u.s. but mr bush when you say i agree with you that terrorising individual but at the same time for example the other day c.n.n. wrote an article suggesting that the way china ca

credit unlike what happened for germany and stuff so let's however look at the technocrats the european commission this was a tweet from a journalist from deutsche of al who interviewed a european commissioner who is a german who is a european commissioner for budget and human resources and so here is the tweet from bernard thomas riegert of deutsche of l. the markets and a darkened outlook will teach italy's voters not to vote for populist parties in the next elections told me the commissioner oettinger in exclusive interview for a dose of health news and strasburg i can only hope that. will play a role in the election campaign so it looks like there will be another election in italy probably in july or august. and this guy oettinger who is good herman oettinger a german politician and now a european commissioner he's saying that because the markets have reacted so negatively that italian voters should basically learn a lesson and not vote for a populist again right to keep phrase there is the markets will teach quote the markets will teach according to the technocrat the german that as we've bee

credit unlike what happened for germany and stuff so let's however look at the technocrats the european commission this was a tweet from a journalist from deutsche of who interviewed a european commissioner who is a german who is a european commissioner for budget and human resources and so here is the tweet from bernard thomas riegert of deutsche of l. the markets and a darkened outlook will teach italy's voters not to vote for populist parties in the next elections told me the commissioner oettinger in exclusive interview for a dose of health news and strasburg i can only hope that. will play a role in the election campaign so it looks like there will be another election in italy probably in july or august. and this guy oettinger who is good there herman oettinger a german politician and now a european commissioner he's saying that because the markets have reacted so negatively that italian voters should basically learn a lesson and not vote for a populist again right to keep phrase there is the markets will teach quote the markets will teach according to the technocrat the german that as we've

the italian prime minister folded your european commission. ministerfolded his arms, looked the other eu leaders in the eye and said nothing is agreed to everything is agreed. they worried at the summit they would be stea m — rollered by worried at the summit they would be steam—rollered by angela merkel, who also needs concessions on migration at the summit was that she is fighting for her political life at home. germany and italy have different policies when it comes to migration. germany wants deals to keep migrants out what italy wants germany and the rest of the u2 take more migrants in. as one diplomat put it this evening, italy has taken the more hostage. as we speak, eu leaders are discussing migration in what i can only imagine is a very bad—tempered dinner. what i can only imagine is a very bad-tempered dinner. thank you. the defence giant bae systems has secured a £20 billion contract from the australian navy. it's ordered nine of a new type of ship designed to detect submarines. the prime minister has welcomed the deal although the

there is no agreement between the different member states despite of the air force of the day european commission put in place in the past i mean to try to convince them these responsibilities are ready and in coordination and now we are facing again another summer coming and there are already under the hundreds of migrants who are trying to cross it to cross the mediterranean sea and to reach the european union and we have an episode that happened exactly during these hours that was the italian government the new italian government refusing to welcome six hundred twenty nine the refugees that were on a board to try to reach the european the european court and they try to put to push these people towards multum ulta was not in the condition to welcome them and in the end it was the new spanish government that mr but it was sanchez that is the prime minister of spain that offered for the money to early and reasons to welcome these people in spain so this is really a symptom a great example of how bad the situation is a regular. in migration in europe there is no strategy there is no common values

just trump's opening bid in a poker game and might be but a i would say the especially the european commission that's responsible for trade policy in the e.u. is taking a very rational and proportionate approach right now and it's obvious and they have to cat this already on that they need to be some counter measures but they're proportionate and now of course everyone is waiting on what will be the next step on the u.s. side but we also have to consider that this significant amount of opposition to further tariffs on cars autos auto parts and so on within the u.s. it would also be much more hurtful if she took that action i want to talk about that in just a moment but just to drill a little bit deeper on what we heard from ralph and a moment ago it's an argument that has been made by the trump. ministration that there are great disparities if you look at overall customs duties on american imports compared to overall american duties on imports from the e.u. now i did check the numbers last night official w t o numbers it says that on average the difference is about one point seven percent not

negotiate with trump and his administration was caught in a tz and also coordinates with the european commission so i mean do you think it will stay that way going forward i truly hope so i think what needs to be done is that a strong economy like germany a powerful chancellor like macro needs to. have a she's understand the needs of everyone involved and there won't be a common european position unless we assist germans also listen to the needs of the southern countries also the central eastern european countries and that's the only way i mean. to be unified also has costs and you know you have to do that in turn the e.u. bargain first i think that's what's happening right now we see this happening both front does that internally you bargain get even harder to make given the role of the new u.s. ambassador here he said this week that he sees his role within his new post as and powering right wing movements that is a very unusual thing for an ambassador to say wouldn't that amount to inciting the divisions we just saw in that report absolutely i think um he crossed a red line for diplomats i thi